[63][64] However, on April 19, 2021, Keaton's talent agency, ICM Partners, officially confirmed his involvement with the film when production had officially begun. My career; career-wise. It sounds pretentious just hearing myself say it now. Mom. Its just [expletive]. He was funny; he had a very quiet sense of humour he used to do things like tease my little sister, she says of the third and youngest sibling, Emily. Picking that character up again 30-ish years later in The Flash, are you playing him as a continuation of that same guy or are you starting from scratch? Is that indicative of any increased desire to address politics more in your work? I miss that stuff with Letterman and those guys. Huey was there. This is a piece of art, with actors saying dialogue, Strong said. You know, I hadnt realized that you and Tim Burton were still pals, and now Im mentally stuck on the possibility of him all gothed out going fly-fishing with you in Montana. The disease of being a morose comic? I thought I would write early on, and I quit because Im lazy. We had to have our pictures taken [and thought]: How bad would he hate this?, Michael Scichilone is pictured with his mother, Michael Keatons sister, Pamela Douglas; the family established a foundation in his name following the Pennsylvania mans opioid death. So at the time Cher if youre enough of an entertainment nerd youll probably remember there was this phase where Cher really wanted to be a rocker, and shes kind of not. What Dopesick offers is the scope of the devastationboth from the perspective of the people who were took Oxycontin and the people who were trying to stop Purdue Pharma from selling it. Indulge me. The film received overwhelmingly positive acclaim and grossed over $1billion worldwide, making it one of the most financially successful films ever. Sitting on your couch, remote in hand, you could select a drama about a bullying, obscenely affluent family that is riven by internal strife but revels in asserting its wealth and power, even if people die. I cant explain it. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Morbius sees the titular doctor, Michael Morbius, suffering from a rare blood disease. With fentanyl, there is only a short window of time to intervene and save a persons life during an overdose. This series is the trial that should have happened, said Danny Strong (Empire), who created and oversaw the show, which debuted Wednesday. After a while you kind of go: I got some ammunition left. The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Contemporary Hollywood. For Macy, that meant emphasizing the effectiveness of medication-assisted treatment, in which addicts use a less dangerous opioid like methadone or Suboxone to regain their lives. Please. She continues: He was a really, really great uncle. But I think works real important. Rosario Dawson plays a D.E.A. The label was based not on findings from clinical trials but on a theory advanced by Purdue that the drug was less addictive than shorter-acting pain killers. That takes up a fair amount of my time. It was equally hard to watch its star, Michael Keaton, previously break down while accepting a Screen Actors Guild award, dedicating the trophy to his sister, Pam, and her son, Michael Douglas Scichilone who died in 2016 in Pennsylvania, a victim of the same epidemic chronicled in Mr Keatons show. I think I invested myself more. He has zigzagged Michael was not, however, a big fan of attention and would likely be horrified by names, buildings or events bearing his name, she laughs. He is known for his various comedic and dramatic film roles, including Jack Butler in Mr. So I go, OK, Im kind of scared, but I pretty much know this material works. (Several states have said they will appeal the settlement.). Published Oct 31, 2021. I think he had a scholarship to Cornell and . So Im doing a little more of that just for me. Oh, sorry. She also brought numerous sources into the writers room, including former Purdue employees and a doctor who discussed the pressure he felt from sales reps and his own addiction to the drug. I didnt want to disrespect it. Keaton was pigeonholed as a comic lead during this time with films like Johnny Dangerously, Gung Ho, The Squeeze, and The Dream Team, though Keaton tried to transition to dramatic leads as early as 1984, playing a hockey player in Touch and Go, which was shelved until 1986. Yeah. Yeah, and this was in old Vegas. So youd stop, step back and reassess. One unique advantage of doing a scripted series, said the shows creator, Danny Strong, was being able to go inside the room with Purdue executives. I hope people will understand that many people were addicted through no fault of their own but because of Purdue pushing the message that opioids were now safe. We seriously do not have time for that. In the shows first few episodes, its especially disorienting. The idea that your frontal lobe is altered and can take two years to get back from that shocked me, Strong said. Now, theres probably some kind of stupid pride that would make me say, man, the guy in The Paper is certainly not like the guy in Night Shift, and Beetlejuice wasnt like anything else. The energy level is just its very cocaine. Frankly the reason a reason that a person can be more effective as an actor boy I hate acting talk. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to, Fox Searchlight Pictures, via Everett Collection. We grew up in kind of a relatively affluent suburb, and parents didnt talk to each other, his sister tells The Independent. His breakout role was as fast-talking schemer Bill "Blaze" Blazejowski in the 1982 comedy film Night Shift. I keep it there because its motivational. His family are speaking out about how drugs killed his namesake nephew in 2016. There just is. Mom was different. You have that tone: I know you like to talk in sport metaphors. Then you get onstage, and theyre there to see Cher. Then I went, But what is he talking about? Its doable. [48] In 2015, Keaton appeared as Walter V. Robinson in Tom McCarthy's Academy Award-winning film Spotlight, and in 2016, he starred as businessman Ray Kroc in the biopic The Founder. A small quantity goes a long way, so its easy to suffer an overdose. I was direct and honest with her. Its almost hard to watch the devastatingly accurate depiction of the opioid epidemic and its insidious invasion of America at the hands of scheming pharmaceutical executives on the Hulu drama Dopesick. When The New York Times reported that DC Films' plans to have Michael Keaton reprise his role as Batman in "The Flash," some fans took it as Keaton would be [17], Keaton first appeared on TV in the Pittsburgh public television programs Where the Heart Is and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1975). Im developing this thing with Jay Roach and Owen Burke and Adam McKay. Im really not bragging: What little act I had, I knew that some parts of it worked. Whats your function in life? For us, I think that Michael self-medicated in some capacity and so I think its so important for people to get the health care, the mental health [care] they need and deserve. OxyContins introduction is now viewed as the start of the opioid epidemic, which has killed more than 500,000 people nationwide and addicted millions more. If youre concerned that a loved one could be exposed to fentanyl, you may want to buy naloxone. Multiple "Batman" projects that were going to star Michael Keaton have been reportedly scrapped by DC. The doctor in Dopesick or Ken Feinberg in Worth are both sort of authority figures, which can be said of a lot of the characters youve played since Birdman. But earlier in your career sorry for using that word pretty much from Night Shift to The Paper you tended to play anti-authority types. My attitude was make em throw you your pitch. Columbia Pictures, via Everett Collection, Michael Keaton, Revved Up and Ready to Tell Some Stories. I dont think print serves that question, to be really honest with you. Im going to keep sidetracking now thats your influence, by the way. He told me a while back, he said, You need to write. [38], Keaton remained active during the 1990s, appearing in a wide range of films, including Pacific Heights, One Good Cop, My Life and the star-studded Shakespearean story Much Ado About Nothing. Theyre still eating, all you hear is silverware and people mumbling things like, Hey, I didnt order Thousand Island. Youre up there and they go: Who is this kid? How fortunate am I that good can come from something that I do just because I wanted to become an actor?, Theres massive inequity in the world. They have a son, Sean, born in 1983. Basically. I would phone something in if I could. "Burton's Batman: Myth, Marketing, and Merchandising." He had previously received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in Live from Baghdad (2002) and five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, which ultimately yielded four wins for his performances in Birdman, Spotlight, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Dopesick. The job at hand is to be the doctor and get back to work. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Keaton with Andie MacDowell in Multiplicity (1996). Honest to God. We do it to raise awareness and to make sure that Michaels name and legacy live on and that something positive comes from something terrible, she says. [49], In 2017, Keaton played the supervillain The Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming; while making this film, Keaton was unable to reprise his role as Chick Hicks for Disney/Pixar's Cars 3 and was replaced by Bob Peterson. If youre concerned that a loved one could be exposed to fentanyl, you may want to buy naloxone. Maybe I am. The best way to prevent fentanyl use is to. I read some old magazine profile of you where you made passing mention about bombing as a young comedian onstage in Las Vegas. I said, Look, if this wasnt well written or if they were saying youve got to kind of work for free, Im not going to lie to you and say I would have done it, but, that said, the No. I dont know how you are about this, but I never got the whole fascination with the superhero thing. No one is paying attention., Dopesick Uses Drama, and Michael Keaton, to Give the Opioid Crisis a Human Face, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/arts/television/dopesick-hulu-michael-keaton.html. And when the drug is too hard to come by, heroin becomes an easy substitute. If you think someone is overdosing, call 911 right away. Whats the trick? I dont even know if thats a good book, but I remember when I read it, I was going, Wow, Dylans really deep. Poulters character, a salesman named Billy, is assigned to Keatons character to make sure the family doctor keeps prescribing the drug. The influence of Michael Keatons starring role in director Tim Burtons 1989 big screen bonanza, Batman, remains powerful. I get embarrassed using the word career. Once you start talking like that you have a self-consciousness about it, and it takes away from: Whats the thing you really are supposed to do? Macy said she had persuaded Strong to hire the Kentucky novelist Robert Gipe (Trampoline) to ensure that the series depicted small-town Appalachia without stereotypes. 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"[24][25] Keaton has said in several interviews that he searched a phone book under "K," saw "Keaton" and decided to stop looking. When I get involved like that creatively, I get excited again. Gotham City weeps today. They could be down in the West Village. That sounds so cavalier: I was bored. But I probably did get a little bored with myself. [30], Keaton's career was given another major boost when he was again cast by Tim Burton, this time as the title comic book superhero of the 1989 film Batman. But I thought, Well, theyre going to see Cher so I dont have to do a lot of time. [58][59] In June 2020, Keaton entered talks to reprise his role as Batman/Bruce Wayne in the DC Extended Universe's upcoming superhero film, The Flash, which is scheduled to be released on June 23, 2023, after last playing the role in 1992. The King, voiced by Richard Petty. Prescription drugs sold online or by unlicensed dealersmarketed as OxyContin, Vicodin and Xanax are often laced with fentanyl. She was playing the part, though. Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. But Keaton didnt pass on the opportunity to play Samuel Finnix, a fictional doctor in a Virginia mining town plagued by the onset of the opioid epidemic and one Then the next level of that is are you having any fun or are you even really any good right now? [37] He was initially set to reprise the role again for a third Batman film, even going as far as to show up for costume fitting. My Life: Directed by Bruce Joel Rubin. It was death, and I had never experienced death. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity from two conversations. Mom (1983) to megastardom via the gothic Batman (1989) and even more gothic Batman Returns (1992). Do the thing. Michael Keaton talks about his return as Batman and the one thing that made him come back for The Flash.Keaton played Batman twice before for Tim Burton's Batman in 1989 and the sequel Batman Returns in 1992. Its hard to think of another actor capable of, say, the manically riffing poltergeist he played in Beetlejuice (1988) and the layered gravitas of a latter-day role like his hard-nosed Boston Globe editor Walter Robinson in Spotlight (2015). The show ran for six seasons, with the Shephard role continuing throughout. Mr Scichilone, of Mt Lebonan, Pennsylvania, was a victim of the opioid epidemic who died in 2016; he was known for being great with children, especially his nephew, Cash, who is pictured, To support such families, in her brothers memory, Meghan and her family started the Michael Douglas Scichilone Foundation just months after his untimely death. In 2014 he played the OmniCorp CEO Raymond Sellars in the RoboCop remake as a more active antagonist, taking RoboCop's wife and child hostage, forcing Joel Kinnaman's character to struggle to overcome the 4th directive. I was just commenting on the vibe. Ive been like that since I was a little kid. Huey Lewis, yeah. I do. Im too antsy to sit around anyway. A terminally ill man prepares for his death. At the fore is Richard Sackler (Michael Stuhlbarg), who must navigate family politics and government regulations in his drive to create a blockbuster drug and attain the companys presidency. Not only do the roles get a little different, but your interpretation of them might be more interesting too.. [42], Keaton starred in the 2007 TV miniseries The Company, set during the Cold War, in which he portrayed the real-life CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton. I thought, Hey, man, embrace it. This was his breakout role as the fast-talking schemer Bill "Blaze" Blazejowski and earned Keaton some critical acclaim.[28]. I could have turned somebody around. People have come up to me about My Life and certain things that Ive done and commented on what it meant to them. Its not like a weird Hollywood family or anything., She adds: Whatever my uncle does to bring awareness to the epidemic and the issue, thats a positive.. 1988 was the seminal year in Keaton's career where he landed two major unconventional roles, forever changing his image to audiences. Dopesick is going to make you angry. [5] He was raised between McKees Rocks,[6] Coraopolis and Robinson Township, Pennsylvania. And when I say I chased this fish down: giant, hot white-water stretch of the Sustut in British Columbia, for about over an eighth of a mile, maybe closer to a quarter of a mile, and landed it with a broken rod. Given the subject matter, this is for my nephew Michael and my sister Pam, the 70-year-old actor said. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Then she started telling me how much time she wanted me to do, and I went, [expletive], I dont have this. Earlier in his speech, which began comically but quickly turned serious, Mr Keaton said he felt honoured to have a profession capable of sparking thought, conversation and actual change. Trust me. Im actually enjoying this. Im a [expletive] hitter. Then you go, I can hit that. So you just hang in there. And then if you can live in that without sounding like Im saying something that makes me want to go outside and vomit you kind of raise your consciousness. The truth becomes clear as Finnix watches one patient after another including an injured young coal miner played by Kaitlyn Dever becomes addicted. Initial footage from The Flash trailer hints that Michael Keaton's early '90s Batman faked his death, according to a popular theory. He made the family holiday movie Jack Frost and the thriller Desperate Measures. Do people think that theres anything to be outraged about? Who gets to have that job? Based largely on the 2018 book by Beth Macy, the show seeks to dramatize how members of the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma, aided by lax regulations, pushed OxyContin onto the public starting in the 1990s. The medicine can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose and is often available at local pharmacies without a prescription. And who is that person? So anyway, that was traumatic. Take close ones right on the edge of the plate. Fox and Tracy Pollan met on a show called Family Ties. Only take pills that were prescribed by your doctor and came from a licensed pharmacy. He was a huge sports fan and, like, knew every Steelers statistic inside and out starting in the Sixties, says his sister, 43. Did that change your perspective about what your career had been up to then? But when Birdman happened and this was compounded by Spotlight also being so acclaimed and following that movie so closely there was the idea that you had a comeback. As the opioid epidemic ravaged Pennsylvania, however, Michael Scichilone would soon fall victim to it. They just did. And backstage the curtains were like 40 feet high. He later appeared in a variety of films ranging from dramas and romantic comedies to thriller and action films, such as Clean and Sober (1988), Pacific Heights (1990), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Paper (1994), Multiplicity (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), The Other Guys (2010), RoboCop (2014), Need for Speed (2015), Spotlight (2015), The Founder (2016), Dumbo (2019), Worth (2020), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020). Dopesick follows Finnix and his patient Betsy (Kaitlyn Dever) over the course of several years, as Oxycontin rips their lives to shreds. We can laugh at the people who obsess but its none of my business what people think. The medicine can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose and is often available at local pharmacies without a prescription. Fentanyl is a potent and fast-acting drug, two qualities that also make it highly addictive. Did you ever read Tarantula? After all these years, if youre going to do this again, be respectful to the character and the movie. I always felt like I disappointed Cher. Buy naloxone. Once this pill enters peoples lives, it doesnt quitand neither does the sales team. A guy like you probably said, I understand all of this. [Laughs.] But could you stop?. So when you asked yourself what you really wanted, what did you come up with? There is no time, he said. So the answer to that question is, I dont have any idea. Why is he bothering us? I remember starting with some kind of architecture-related joke. I was always afraid that Id catch the disease.. Keaton said he may not experience the worst impacts of climate change, but he cannot say the same for his son and grandchildren - one reason hes eager to act. Ive always thought, without sounding self-serving here, that its important to be able to say, If it all falls apart tomorrow, at least I did something that maybe meant something to someone. Dopesick is personal. Opening illustration: Source photograph by Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse, via Getty Images, The comments section is closed. From the late 90s through the 00s, Oxycontin addiction ravaged entire communities, turning them into the epicenter of an opioid crisis that is still raging today. Anyone can read what you share. Letterman appearances from the early 80s. 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On New Year's Day of 2004, he hosted the PBS TV special Mr. Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor. I remember sweat literally running down my back. Then you start to literally get tired of hearing your own voice, and also metaphorically get tired. Probably you were already angry about the Oxycontin grift, wherein the company Purdue Pharmarun by the extremely wealthy Sackler familypeddled the opioid as a nonaddictive painkiller when it was, in fact, highly addictive. I dont know that Ive thought about that specifically. Michael Keaton stars in Dopesick as a doctor who watches as the OxyContin he was manipulated into prescribing ravages his small Appalachian town. I will tell you, heres the thing about Tim Burton that a lot of people dont know: Because he has certain mannerisms and personality and what his art looks like, I think theres a little misperception. What people dont know is, I never left; I was always picking up a little gig here and there. 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But he stressed the need for change. In 2014, Keaton garnered critical acclaim for his performance in Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu's black comedy film Birdman, winning a Golden Globe Award for Best ActorMotion Picture Musical or Comedy and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Is there a story there? ), Strong decided early to make the U.S. attorneys investigation the narrative spine of the series, he said. [35], According to Les Daniels's reference book Batman: The Complete History, Keaton initially believed the film would be similar in tone to the 1960s TV series starring Adam West but he understood the darker, brooding side of Batman the film was going for after reading Frank Miller's comic book miniseries, The Dark Knight Returns, which he portrayed to much fan approval. A buddy of mine who was a rod builder, Ive never told him that his rod broke. 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